WP Job Portal <= 2.2.6 - Insecure Direct Object Reference to Authenticated (Employer+) Arbitrary Job Deletion

2025-01-31 00:00

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Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.2.7

Affected PluginWP Job Portal – AI-Powered Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website

Affected Version<= 2.2.6

CVSS4.3Medium

CVECVE-2024-13429

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Vulnerability Overview

The WP Job Portal – A Complete Recruitment System for Company or Job Board website plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.6 via the 'jobenforcedelete' due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with employer-level access and above, to delete arbitrary

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.2.7, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13429 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/9cbce69a-53d0-4b83-9b7a-893a6b9c39c4

CVSS Vector

4.3

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityNone
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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